Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-03
OF GENERAL INrEREsr.


about the size of base bail. 1t proved
10 be an unexplOded canister bomb.
"A skeleton of human being which
was recently placed in the hallway of a
medical college at Los Angeles, Cal,
to scare burglars away has been
| stolen.
"A negro at the Boyce Oa.) teleo
graph Office the other day sent the fol-
lowing dispatch to an absent friend;
Come home your wifes dyin' fast as
she can"
A giantess, who, though only
twelve years and five months old,
stands eight feet high. and weighs two
hundred and seventy pounds, is on ex-
hibition in Japan.
Two ladies. Miss Belle Burrows
and Virginia Springer. each carried
out Il keg of powder from a burning
store during a recent fire at New Mar
tinsville. w. Va. The kegs were hot
and they put wet rags on them to cool
them.
-Feyth. the Bridgeport safe burg
lar, says that safes should be set on
blocks and placed in corner in such
| n position that the door will shut to-
ward the wall. This makes it neces-
sary to move the safe in order to get
at the door with the wedge and JIM
my, and the job is difficult and dam
gerous.
"A pretty miss, not over fifteen years
of age, set up Il bootblacking stand in
Wall street, New York, one day re-
Gently. and everyone expected to see
her get a large custom, but somehow
Or other no man had the courage to
submit his boots to the brushes of
maiden. and she WAS compelled to give
up the business.
In recently published history OF
Connecticut appears a description of
grand wedding in the later colonial
days. The historian says: "On the
day after the marriage ninety-two
ladies and gentlemen proceeded to
dance ninety-two jigs, fifty-two contra
dances, forty-five minuets, and seven
teen hOrnpipes."
We are growing old very fast.
away to our eternal home at a great
rate. We have scarcely recovered
from the effects of our Fourth of July
LIBERATION before we have to make
preparations to contract our Christmas
headache. This is a mad, mad world.
Lincoln journal.
"A farmer of Mecklenburg County,
n. C., owns n tame crow which goes
regularly to the cotton field and picks
as much i'll day as any of the human
pickers. With its beak it twists the
cotton out and puts it in bag. The
owner of this truly rare bird. as well as
the neighbors, declare that the state
ment is true in all respects.
"A negro III Americas, Ga, bought
trunk at store for one dollar and a
half. An hour afterward he returned
and said he guessed he'd got too much
for his money. The trunk was filled
with the storekeeper's stock of Mack
inaw straw hats that had been packed
away in it for the winter. They were
worth from seventy-five to one hundred
dollars.
Mrs. Jennie Webster, of 1909
Chestnut street. st. Louis, found a
man under her bed one evening re-
Gently. In the absence Of her husband
she was perusing some old love letters,
the package fell to the floor, and in re-
covering it she discovered the in
truder's feet. She quietly left the
room, summoned an officer. and the
would-be burglar was captured. Mrs.
Webster then swoo2ed in the most. APP
proved fashion.
Engineer William Dart, of :the
steam tug u. Dart at Brunswick. ga.
reports seeing rattlesnake the other
day coming in from sea. The
steamer was near the Lighthouse when
his snakeship was discovered coming
in with the tide, head erect, but with
rattles trailing in the water. The rat
tlesnake usually swims with both head
and tail erect. the latter waving from
side to side. like that of dog. This
one must have been swimming long
time, and was no doubt exhausted,
hence allowed the rattles to trail in the
water.
The experiments made by NJ. Mob
lenbruck seem to show that in the
mesmeric condition an electric current
may have powerful inductive action
upon the human nerves. In the first
experiment a watch was placed near
the microphone and the ring placed
upon the head of the mesmeriZed- sub
ject, who Immediately began to beat
time with the ticking OF the watch;
when the microphone contact was
touched with quill feather he placed
his fingers in his ears, and on the mi
crophone being removed to distant
apartment and the connection of the
circuit completed, as before. violin
WAS played in the distant room. the pa
tient showing the most distinct indica-